14 DAY TRIAL // Kovid Goyal has announced the immediate availability for download of a new maintenance release of his famous Calibre ebook reader, editor and organizer software for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. Calibre 2.22.0 introduces a number of new features, as well as multiple bug fixes that are detailed for your reading pleasure below.
Among the highlights of Calibre 2.22, we can mention support for expanding the editor widget when editing data in the Book List component in order to use all the available width, support for restoring opened files, as well as the position of the text cursor when re-opening previously edited books, and support for adding weeks, days, years and months in the advanced search builder.
Calibre 2.22 also implements support for updating metadata in DOCX files, adds support for intra-document cross-references in the ODT input, makes the Amazon metadata download functionality faster, repairs wrong ASCII control characters encoding, as well as strange Chinese characters in the ToC (Table of Contents) and metadata strings, and addresses some issues in the Manage Authors dialog, which caused the current Book List search to be cleared.
Numerous other issues have been fixed in the new Calibre version
Another issue has been repaired in the Amazon metadata download functionality, this time related to some amazon.com server problems with not returning the edition of the connected Kindle eBook reader in search results if the user wasn’t logged in. Numerous other issues have been fixed in the new Calibre version, such as a regression present in the previous version, Calibre 2.21, which caused the conversion process to fail when using books that had an invalid pseudo-class CSS selector.
Moreover, the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) categories have been patched to display books for composite column categories even if the respective column includes a colon, an error has been fixed when scanning default applications on the Microsoft Windows operating system for various file types, some Preview panel issues have been addressed in order for metadata to be written only if changes occurred, and an error message is now displayed if the file is used by another application.
Lastly, you can now open multiple HTML files quickly in the Edit Book component, when editing a book. The Wired Daily news source has been improved as well. Download Calibre 2.22.0 for Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows right now from Softpedia.